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Overview
The government and healthcare facilities should continue to improve their approach to all-hazards preparedness, including preparedness for terrorist attacks with chemical, biological, or radioactive weapons. The healthcare team’s knowledge and ability to recognize these conditions is critical to preparedness efforts and maintaining individual and the population health. This module gives an overview of weapons of mass destruction and their symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the history of bioterrorism.
- Describe the signs, symptoms, and management of anthrax and plague infection.
- Discuss measures the government has instituted in case of bioterrorism attacks.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of botulism and smallpox and understand their medical management.
- List the recommendations of national agencies involved in emergency preparedness measures.
- Explain emergency preparedness measures for bioterrorism.
- Explain the basic principles of radiation and possible scenarios for radiological incidents
- Discuss the injuries, radiological contamination routes, presenting signs and symptoms, and treatments associated with radiological incidents.
- Discuss the basic roles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals when they respond to a radiological mass casualty incident.
- Identify the types of chemical agents that can be used as weapons.
- Describe symptoms related to a chemical attack.
- Describe treatments for victims exposed to nerve agents, cyanides, respiratory irritants, and vesicants.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 2/28/2005
60045
Course Author
MD
DNP, RN, CEN, FAEN
RN, MSN, MA, CSPI
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.